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People who face an extra 20-odd miles of travel along the notorious A90 Perth to Dundee road to give birth, attend clinics or visit loved ones have raised those issues time and again.
It was helpful to have your written response in advance so that we could put it on the web to allow external organisations to see the discussions that we had had.
If the Scottish Executive has not visited an uncompetitive business rates regime on Scottish business, why has it sought to freeze business rates over the next year?
I am sure that you have been following our deliberations—or reading about them, if you have nothing better to do with your time, on the web, as everyone else seems to do. I am sure that you are aware of the significance of our discussions and the significance of your role and your comments.
Perhaps it is not incumbent on you to give us those reasons, but I presume that there must be a benefit to the local economy in going from 26 days' racing up to between 80 and 100 days.